The 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans - 10-11 June

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

The 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans - 10-11 June

Start@ 7AM PDT, 9AM EDT, 3PM BST, 4PM CEST - other times in other time zones (funny how that works)

Radio Le Mans is my go-to for commentary, now with stable sponsorship by Hagerty, patron saint of Classic Car Insurance. (Regardless of what I'm watching, the Radio Le Mans guys provide the most enjoyable commentary).

Radio Le Mans – The home of RadioLeMans

www.radiolemans.co

On your cable/dish TV - MotortrendTV in USA, and I am sure there are many others.

Better yet, go to YouTube and search for one of the many pirate feeds from various world-wide sports TV venues.

Various teams have in-car coverage, best to search via YouTube or Google or your favorite mottor de search.

It looks to be the best race in years, if the NASCAR garage 57 entry does not steal the show (It will provide the thunder).

Set up a couple of laptops on your boat and have your own Le Mans central. Be sure to bring enough food and alcohol for the full 24 hours.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

2023 LE MANS 24 HOURS GRID - HYPERCAR​

Grid​	No.​	Team​	Drivers​
1​	50​	Ferrari AF Corse​	Fuoco/Molina/Nielsen​
2​	51​	Ferrari AF Corse​	Pier Guidi/Calado/Giovinazzi​
3​	8​	Toyota Gazoo Racing​	Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa​
4​	75​	Porsche Penske Motorsport​	Nasr/Jaminet/Tandy​
5​	7​	Toyota Gazoo Racing​	Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez​
6​	2​	Cadillac Racing​	Bamber/Lynn/Westbrook​
7​	5​	Porsche Penske Motorsport​	Cameron/Christensen/Makowiecki​
8​	3​	Cadillac Racing​	Bourdais/Van Der Zande/Dixon​
9​	6​	Porsche Penske Motorsport​	Estre/Lotterer/Vanthoor​
10​	93​	Peugeot Totalenergies​	di Resta/Jensen/Vergne​
11​	94​	Peugeot Totalenergies​	Duval/Menezes/Mueller​
12​	708​	Glickenhaus Racing​	Dumas/Pla/Briscoe​
13​	311​	Action Express Racing​	Derani/Sims/Aitken​
14​	709​	Glickenhaus Racing​	Mailleux/Berthon/Gutierrez​
15​	4​	Floyd Vanwall Racing Team​	Dillmann/Guerrieri/Vautier​
16​	38​	Hertz Team JOTA​	Da Costa/Stevens/Ye​

2023 LE MANS 24 HOURS GRID - LMP2​

Grid​	No.​	Team​	Drivers​
17​	48​	IDEC Sport​	Lafargue/Chatin/Horr​
18​	28​	JOTA​	Heinemeier Hansson/Rasmussen/Fittipaldi​
19​	41​	Team WRT​	Andrade/Deletraz/Kubica​
20​	47​	Cool Racing​	De Gerus/Lomlo/Pagenaud​
21​	63​	Prema Racing​	Pin/Kvyat/Bortolotti​
22​	14​	Nielsen Racing [Pro/Am]​	Sales/Beche/Hanley​
23​	9​	Prema Racing​	Viscaal/Correa/Ugran​
24​	10​	Vector Sport​	Cullen/Aubry/Kaiser​
25​	45​	Algarve Pro Racing [Pro/Am]​	Kurtz/Allen/Braun​
26​	22​	United Autosports​	Hanson/Alberquerque/Lubin​
27​	923​	Racing Team Turkey [Pro/Am]​	Yoluc/Gamble/Vanthoor​
28​	65​	Panis Racing​	Maldonado/van der Helm/van Uitert​
29​	34​	Inter Europol Competition​	Smiechowski/Costa/Scherer​
30​	23​	United Autosports​	Pierson/Blomqvist/Jarvis​
31​	31​	Team WRT​	Gelael/Habsburg/Frijns​
32​	37​	Cool Racing [Pro/Am]​	Lapierre/Coigny/Jakobsen​
33​	80​	AF Corse [Pro/Am]​	Perrodo/Barnicoat/Nato​
34​	43​	DKR Engineering [Pro/Am]​	Van Rompuy/de Wilde/Martin​
35​	35​	Alpine Elf Team​	Negrão/Caldwell/Rojas​
36​	30​	Duqueine Team​	Jani/Binder/Pino​
37​	32​	Inter Europol Competition [Pro/Am]​	Kvamme/Magnussen/Fjordbach​
38​	39​	Graff Racing [Pro/Am]​	Lacorte/van der Garde/Pilet​
39​	36​	Alpine Elf Team​	Vaxiviere/Milesi/Canal​
40​	13​	Tower Motorsports [Pro/Am]​	Thomas/Taylor/Rast​

2023 LE MANS 24 HOURS GRID - COMPETITOR DEMONSTRATING NEW TECHNOLOGY​

Grid​	No.​	Team​	Drivers​
41​	24​	Hendrick Motorsports​	Johnson/Rockenfeller/Button​

2023 LE MANS 24 HOURS GRID - LMGTE​

Grid​	No.​	Team​	Driver​
42​	33​	Corvette Racing​	Catsburg/Keating/Varrone​
43​	25​	ORT by TF​	Al Harthy/Dinan/Eastwood​
44​	54​	AF Corse​	Flohr/Castellacci/Rigon​
45​	21​	AF Corse​	Mann/Piguet/de Pauw​
46​	83​	Richard Mille AF Corse​	Companc/Rovera/Wadoux​
47​	57​	Kessel Racing​	Kimura/Huffaker/Serra​
48​	55​	GMB Motorsport​	Dahlmann Birch/Sorensen/Reno Moller​
49​	74​	Kessel Racing​	Cozzolino/Tsujiko/Yokomizo​
50​	77​	Dempsey-Proton Racing​	Ried C/Pedersen/Andlauer​
51​	86​	GR Racing​	Wainwright/Barker/Pera​
52​	100​	Walkenhorst Motorsport​	Hull/Haryanto/Segal​
53​	85​	Iron Dames​	Bovy/Gatting/Frey​
54​	60​	Iron Lynx​	Schiavoni/Cressoni/Picariello​
55​	72​	TF Sport​	Robin A/Robin M/Hasse-Clot​
56​	56​	Project 1 - AO​	Hyett/Jeannette/Cairolo​
57​	911​	Proton Competition​	Fassbender/Rump/Lietz​
58​	16​	Proton Competition​	Hardwick/Robichon/Heylen​
59​	98​	Northwest AMR​	James/Mancinelli/Riberas​
60​	66​	JMW Motorsport​	Neubauer/Prette/Petrobelli​
61​	88​	Proton Competition​	Tincknell/Yount/Ried J​
62​	777​	D'Station Racing​	Hoshino/Stevenson/Fujii​

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Motortrend TV working if you have cable/dish

Under safety car, due to early crash. Wet road. Barrier repair will cause a delay. Race now restarted (00:45:00)

A couple of streams to try: (Note - these may drop out due to various YouTube issues)

These are working at this point:

(None found)

#7 Toyota crashed out

(NO FURTHER FEED)

#8 Toyota in car



Ferrari #50 in car:



Ferrari #51 in car:



Cadillac in car:




Motoul Glickenhaus:




Heart of Racing team #98 in car:

(NO FURTHER FEED)

Peugeot in car:




Live ticker of major race events courtesy of Porsche:

Liveticker: The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023. | Porsche Motorsport Hub

WEC 2023 enters the fourth round at the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. Experience the race progress of the Porsche team here.

motorsports.porsche.com

 

[LeoV]

First Cadillac crashed in 3 minutes....

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Some stable streams to try above -

Enjoy!

They are staging the re-start after the Cadillac early lap crash

Race is restarted and underway...

 

[Meat Wad]

So cool having the on board on YouTube. This his how racing should be.

 

[Vieux Port]

Total carnage so far. Lot's of mistakes, and now a downpour that wipes out five cars.

Seven cars out in the first three hours!

Half the course is dry, half is a lake

6.55 pm: It's pouring in the Mulsanne. Race control decides to announce a Safety Car phase, but it's not in time for the leading car of the GTE Am class, the GR Racing Porsche #86. Pera Riccardo hits the barricades of the track with the back of the car.

6.39 pm: Heavy accident for the #77 of Dempsey - Proton Racing. Mikkel Pedersen just makes it back into the pits. Also a driver change in the #6 - Laurens Vanthoor hands over to Kevin Estre.

6.22 pm: Accident involving two 911 RSR in the GTE Am class. The #16 and #60 cars collide but are able to make it to the pits with heavy damage.

4.55 pm: 20-minute safety car phase, caused by an accident of the #311.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

New live stream - you may have to watch on YouTube to view: (Note- these ad hoc streams don't last long)



For in car links, see post No. 3 above

 

[veni vidi vici]

Real men

 

[SloopJonB]

Real men

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As close as you could come to strapping 400 HP to your back.

 

[tane]

...wenn Sex was safe & motorracing dangerous

 

[Talchotali]

We'll the've just finished the equivalent of two Formula One races, with 6 more equivalents to go. Three and a half of those will be in darkness, and as the weather report indicates, these will likely be in driving rain. No halts for rain, its just part of the fun.

Been doing this on the same piece of mostly public road, for a hundred years now, which includes a straightaway, were speeds approach nearly 200 miles per hour.

A true test of man and machine.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

New general coverage live stream hard to find on YouTube. Suggest your cable source (MotoTrend TV, Discovery+) or watching via the in car cams (links in post 3 above)

Radio Le Mans provides a stable commentary; suggest you use that for your audio source:

Radio Le Mans – The home of RadioLeMans

www.radiolemans.co

Good written updates here:

24 Hours of Le Mans. Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency

The 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the world's oldest endurance racing event. It is held annually since 1923 near the town of Le Mans, France.

www.motorsport.com

At 12:05 Le Mans time, #7 Toyota crashed out - so no live stream



#8 Toyota in car here:

 

[claudiajohnston]

The 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans - 10-11 June

Start@ 7AM PDT, 9AM EDT, 3PM BST, 4PM CEST - other times in other time zones (funny how that works)

Radio Le Mans is my go-to for commentary, now with stable sponsorship by Hagerty, patron saint of Classic Car Insurance. (Regardless of what I'm watching, the Radio Le Mans guys provide the most enjoyable commentary).

​

On your cable/dish TV - MotortrendTV in USA, and I am sure there are many others.

Better yet, go to YouTube and search for one of the many pirate feeds from various world-wide sports TV venues. https://bikerepic.com

Various teams have in-car coverage, best to search via YouTube or Google or your favorite mottor de search.

It looks to be the best race in years, if the NASCAR garage 57 entry does not steal the show (It will provide the thunder).

Set up a couple of laptops on your boat and have your own Le Mans central. Be sure to bring enough food and alcohol for the full 24 hours.

The 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans took place on June 10-11. It started at 7AM PDT, 9AM EDT, 3PM BST, and 4PM CEST. Radio Le Mans, sponsored by Hagerty, provides enjoyable commentary for the race. You can also watch it on MotortrendTV or search for pirate feeds on YouTube. In-car coverage from various teams is available as well. It promises to be an exciting race, with the NASCAR garage 57 entry likely to provide some excitement. Enjoy the race by setting up multiple laptops on your boat and be prepared with enough food and alcohol for the full 24 hours.

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

A good summing up of the 100th 24 Hours of Le Mans



Personal note for @claudiajohnston, the food and alcohol held out for the full 24 hours.

 

[LeoV]

Very good piece.
Best driver of the Le Mans, good question...
I know one amateur who drove like a bat out of hell.

They missed that the Corvette had to swap engines between quali and race.
It won the the Nurnburgring 24hr too.

 

[Bristol-Cruiser]

Real men

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That little double roll bar is going to do a lot in a rollover.

 

[Latadjust]

I really enjoyed watching Le Mans on Motortrend TV this year and I appreciate their committing so much air time. I regularly cant sleep, the repetitive revs lap after lap, the almost monotone play by play, watching the in car shots in the dark of night from the middle of the night...the rhythm the sounds the sleeping quiet countryside, ...it was a singular experience as the rest of the family slept

 

[sledracr]

I watched (or, at least, had on in the background) the first 6 hours or so, and the last.

Good stuff, although I kept hoping they'd show more of the Camaro...

 

[SloopJonB]

That little double roll bar is going to do a lot in a rollover.

Formula One was just stupidly, unnecessarily dangerous until Jackie Stewart got things changed in the 70's.

But, at the same time, the cars were never sexier than those little cigars. Gurney's was the best of all.